Palestine

Common Ground

By Harper’s Magazine, on September 13, 2019

Feet of clay: on the troublesome uses of archeology, past and present Read More

Common Ground

By Rachel Poser,

Thirty miles from the coast, on a desert plateau in the Judaean Mountains without natural resources or protection, Jerusalem is not a promising site for one of the world’s great…

The Vanishing

By Janine di Giovanni,

On a Friday afternoon in the fall of 2017, a few months after the liberation of Mosul from the Islamic State, a group of neighbors gathered at Mar Mattai, a…

Housing #03 and #11

By Mohammed Joha,

Same Old, Same Old

By Leila Abdelrazaq, on April 18, 2017

Palestinian-Americans on the meaning of Donald Trump's presidency. Read more... Read More

Discussing the “Radical Otherness” of Israel with Frédéric Brenner

By Sam Cate-Gumpert, on November 4, 2014

Only such a spectrum of perspectives could really do justice to the complexities and to the fact that Israel is totally un-understandable. Read More

The Other Zionism

By I. F. Stone,

The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were “a people without a land” returning to “a land without a people.” But there…

A Jerusalem Education

By John R. MacArthur, on July 17, 2014

“It gradually dawned on me that since 1967, I had made very little progress in seeing Arabs or empathizing with their plight.” Read More

Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

By Scott Horton, on March 18, 2013

Rashid Khalidi on how the United States sustains the failure of the Israel–Palestine peace process Read More

Weekly Review

By Emily Stokes, on January 10, 2012

A Small Family. Mitt Romney won the first stage of the Republican leadership race, beating Rick Santorum by eight votes, 30,015 to 30,007, in the Iowa caucus. “This has been…

Abraham’s children

By Bernard Avishai,

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Common Ground

Common Ground

The Vanishing

Housing #03 and #11

Same Old, Same Old

Discussing the “Radical Otherness” of Israel with Frédéric Brenner

The Other Zionism

A Jerusalem Education

Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

Weekly Review

Abraham’s children

December 2011